All Events: December 2024

This lecture is the flagship Notre Dame Dublin event for the 2024 Notre Dame Forum, a campus-wide dialogue about issues of importance to the University, the nation, and the larger world. This year's theme is "What Do We Owe Each Other?" While the event takes place in Dublin, a recording will be posted after the event concludes. Amitav Ghosh is widely regarded as one of the finest thinkers on climate change and colonialism. His book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) "established climate change as the most crucial question ever to confront human culture." In 2021, Ghosh released The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, tracking our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Foreign Policy magazine named him as among our most important global thinkers. Ghosh merges the themes of colonialism, environment and art, showing the climate crisis is equally a crisis of culture, of imagination, of science and of conscience.

In 2024, over 70 countries held elections, with more than half of the world's population participating. This panel will explore global election results from a comparative perspective and reflect on what they reveal about the state of democracy.

This event brings together a diverse array of Notre Dame voices with personal and professional relationships to the current conflict. From their distinct vantage points as scholars, practitioners, and individuals with deep ties to the region, panelists will describe their experiences, how they are processing what is happening, and what they hope and expect for the future. The evening fireside chat intends to create a safe space for the Notre Dame community to engage in this challenging, but necessary, conversation

This event will bring together scholars, activists, faith leaders, and political strategists at this perilous moment in the history of American democracy.